BEWARE OF DR. RICHARD ELLENBOGEN

Ellenbogen continually tries to have his filthy reputation scrubbed clean by his lawyers, staff and publicists. The valid ratings below were removed removed from ratemds.com and replaced with phony positive ratings. But, Dr. Ellenbogen can't stop his injured patients from using their first Ammendment Right to free speech.

Thursday, October 2, 2008

What should you do if you get a bad rhinoplasty --- I Don't recommend going to Dr. Richard Ellenbogen, known among many of his peers as "Ellenbogus" -- unless you want your nose chopped off to a stump and rotated up like Micheal Jackson's. Unless you want a giant ugly space between your nose and your lip or you are a fan of blunt almost tipless, flat, unprojected noses with complete nostril retraction -- I don't recommend going to Ellenbogen (Ellenbogus). Ellenbogen's style of super short, crooked, ugly pig snout looking noses are referred to among his peers as the "Ellenbogus pig snout". That's what several top reconstructive doctors told me.

ALSO BEWARE OF Dr. BABAK DADVAND WHO ASSISTs RICHARED ELLENBOGEN.

What people don't realize is that any quack can get in magazines such as People, Cosmo, etc and on TV shows such as Oprah, Dr. Phil, CNN, Discovery Health, etc. including Jan Adams, Michael Evan Sachs and Brad Jacobs --all addicts who have finally lost their medical licences. Bad doctors often hire publicists to get them on TV and to get fame b/c that is really the only way for them to get patients.

Below is what one lady wrote on ripoffreport.com -- she is one of many who was deformed by Richard Ellenbogen & her photos of her collapsed nose is posted above:

"I am a 22 year old female that wanted a slight cosmetic improvement on my nose. Richard Ellenbogen completely destroyed my nose and face. Because of what he did, I had to endure an expensive and difficult revision.

I found Richard Ellenbogen of Beverly Hills Body while he was featured on Dr. 90210. Thinking he was a renowned Rhinoplasty specialist, I went to consult with him. I was blinded by his self-proclaimed fame and supposed reputation / experience of being the best rhinoplasty surgeon.

I was told that he only operated on the tip of my nose. The days after the surgery, my family and I were in complete and utter shock. My face was deformed and my nose was MUTILATED and chopped off.

I questioned Richard Ellenbogen and his assistant Babak Dadvand and was instead ignored and rushed out of the office.

Feeling betrayed and helpless, I consulted with several other rhinoplasty specialists only to find out that Richard Ellenbogen had completely lied about the entire procedure. Every surgeon that I went to was shocked at my awful results from him. They all told me, according to my surgery report, Ellenbogen did MAJOR work, breaking my bridge bone and bone under my eyes. He did this WITHOUT my permission. My bridge was left twisted and very jagged. My entire nose was completely upturned and flattened. My tip was crooked, collapsing, and over shortened.

There was nothing supporting my tip so it was deflated / flat. Richard Ellenbogen also left a large piece of random plastic on one side of my tip which was about to POP OUT of my skin!!! I have scars left on my nose from the plastic pushing out."

PICTURES OF REAL DR. RICHARD ELLENBOGEN PATIENTS AND TESTIMONIALS.

Dr. Richard Ellenbogen broke patient confidentiality and placed Nora’s altered photos on his website as a success -- To the left are 4 photos Ellebogen put on his website. Her real outcome is the picture with her eyes whited out above.

Below is a series of photos of another recent victim of Richard Ellenbogen -- I pasted the ripoffreport she filed for him. Ellenbogen left this lady with a foreign peice of plastic in her tip in addition to making it, short, collapsed and deformed.

What do you think of a doctor who would ruin noses the way that Richard Ellenbogen does? He then did insurance fraud -- he billed Nora's (the lady with the eyes whited out) insurance close to $40,000, after she paid in full out of pocket. What do you think of a doctor who breaks patient confidentiality and posts patient's altered photos on his website? What do you think of a dotor who false advertises? In my opinion, this sort of doctor is evil.

In my opinion, Richard Ellenbogen is a ruthless, psychopath who has no conscience and no concept of right or wrong. In my opinion Richard Ellenbogen enjoys ruining peoples’ faces and lives.

After he does so, he uses his money and power to get himself more fame and publicity and then on TV claims that he “is an artist who makes people happy and beautiful.” In my opinion, Richard Ellenbogen is one of the most evil, greedy, fame and money hungry scam artists in the world. In my opinion, Richard Ellenbogen of the TV show, Dr. 90210, is an evil, ruthless, psychopath.

Beverly Hills Celebrity Plastic Surgeon or Another TV Charlaton? Who is Worse -- Jan Adams or Richard Ellenbogen? Who is Worse Michael Evan Sachs or Richard Ellenbogen? My Reconstructive Surgeons and the many others I consulted with around the country told me that they think that Richard Ellenbogen is the most reckless, most horrible and EXTREME surgeon in terms of leaving people with noses that can't be fixed.

According to many of the top reconstructive surgeons I've consulted with, Richard Ellenbogen is far worse of a mutilator than even Michael Evan Sachs, and that it is impossible to try to fix the damage Ellenbogen did to me and many others. Almost no other doctor other than Richard Ellenbogen would be so reckless as to remove ALL THE INTERNAL ANATOMY FROM THE INSIDE OF SOMEONE'S TIP AND THE NASAL SPINE, AND MAKE THE NOSE AN INCH SHORTER AND ALMOST COMPLETELY FLAT AND UNPROJECTED. IN MY OPINION, RICHARD ELLENBOGEN HAS TO EITHER BE CRAZY, SKILLESS, ON DRUGS OR DRUNK, OR EVIL OR, JUST PLAIN OUT HAVE NO SKILLS AND FOLLOW NO REAL TECHNIQUES. HE IS BEYOND RECKLESS.

REVISION RHINOPLASTY SPECIALIST -- DR. 90210 -- BEVERLY HILLS BODY

There are 3 main rhinoplasty forums, and if anyone cares to research Dr. Richard Ellenbogen of Dr. 90210 -- just email the moderators of each forum, and they will share the many nightmare stories about Ellenbogen that they have.

Here is the canadian one: http://www.revisionrhinoplasty.readywebsites.com/page/page/3155165.htm

E had the photos removed, and now, the moderator put them back up.

Email the moderator of http://Rhinoplasty4You.com/forum/

She knows of many who have been harmed by Ellenbogen of Dr. 90210, and there are more photos on her site to prove it too.

Or email the moderator of: http://www.rhinoplastynetwork.com/ -- the moderator of this board was deformed by Ellenbogen, Dean, and he knows of many others who were too.

Below, I copied and pasted the Rhinoplasty Networks Poll of "Who is the Worst":

"Dr. Ellenbogen takes 1st place on Rhinoplasty Networks' Poll for Worst Plastic Surgeon. He also won the worst Plastic Surgeon Poll on Rhinoplasty4you's Poll.

Congratulations Dr. Ellenbogen -- you've been voted the worst plastic surgeon on both Rhinoplasty boards!! This is a title that is hard to win, but with your extreme lack of skill, ethics, and patient care -- you managed to beat the competitors."

Which Rhinoplasty Doctor is considered the worst in the entire history of the universe?? -- I vote for Richard Ellenbogen. I know many, many others who share this same opinion including all of his peers who I have consulted with. Type Ellenbogen into the search engine of the ripoffreport.com to see others who have been mutilated and deformed by Richard Ellenbogen.

I had surgery with Richard Ellenbogen. I went to him to widen the tip of my nose -- instead he removed over 90% of the tip of my nose, he remove half the brige of my nose and nasal spine and shortened my septum. He charged me $12,000 and ruined my nose, and hence my face and my confidence.

Removing the tip of someone's nose is a barbaric form of punishment. Dr. Richard Ellenbogen did this form of horrible punishment to me -- he removed all the soft tissue, and cartiladge from the tip of my nose and a good amount of the bridge of my nose. Why did you cut my nose off Ellenbogus??? Do you hate women? Are you a drug addict? Are you a psychopath? WHY??? WHAT WERE YOU THINKING?

He took almost all of the projection away from my nose, removed about an inch of length, rotated the tiny bit of tip that he did leave super high up and he removed my columella, nasal spine, a good amount of my septum and the tip cap. He also removed almost all of the soft tissue and cartilage from the tip of my nose so as to make it impossible to repair.

He lied on my operative report and said that I came to him for nasal shortening. I did not go to him for that. I went to him to un pinch my tip. I did not in, any way, want a short nose. I told him that I wanted a very, very subtle change. ELLENBOGUS --WHAT DOES THE WORD SUBTLE MEAN TO YOU??!!

He never returned my calls. I have a question for you Richard Ellenbogen -- WHY DID YOU AMPUTATE HALF OF MY NOSE OFF OF MY FACE???? WHY DID YOU RUIN MY FACE? WHY DID YOU RUIN MY LIFE? WHAT WERE YOU THINKING WHEN YOU REMOVED ALL OF THAT CARTILADGE, PROJECTION AND SOFT TISSUE? DID YOU WANT TO MAKE ME HIDEOUSLY UGLY?????!!!!

I FEEL LIKE I WAS MUTILATED, VIOLATED, AND DESTROYED IN THE WORST AND MOST DEVASTING AND HUMILIATING WAYS POSSIBLE -- MY NOSE WAS CUT OFF OF MY FACE!!!!

RICHARD ELLENBOGEN -- YOU HAVE RUINED MY LIFE AND MY HAPPINESS. BEFORE YOU, LIFE WAS WONDERFUL. WHY??? WHY WERE YOU SOOOOOOOOO EXTREME AND DRASTIC WITH ME?? PLEASE CAN YOU EXPLAIN? DID YOU INTENTIONALLY WANT TO MAKE ME HIDEOUSLY UGLY AND SAD? DID YOU INTENTIONALLY WANT TO DESTROY MY FACE AND MY LIFE? OR, DO YOU HAVE THE WORLD'S WORST TASTE AND THOUGHT THAT REMOVING THE TIP OF MY NOSE AND SHORTENING MY SEPTUM WOULD LOOK GOOD? ARE YOU EVIL OR ON DRUGS? PLEASE-- GIVE ME AN EXPLANATION!!

Before going to Richard Ellenbogen, I had a very tiny philtrum -- distance between my top lip and tip of my nose, after going to him the distance was huge and unattractive. He made my nose ridiculously and hideously short, flat, unprojected. It looked like the nose of someone with a congenitally short nose deformity. I explained to him that I am Mediterranean, Spanish, and Italian. I have an oval face, and it looks ridiculous with the SUPER short, flat, crooked weird nose he left me with.

Before him, I did not have nostril show, after, I had complete nostril retraction. After going to him, one could see inside my nostrils when I look straight ahead. He literally, turned my long, elegant nose that had a nice projected tip into something that resembled a pig snout. This "pig snout" nose makes my face look mean and low class. Before going to Ellenbogen, I was always told that I had an elegant, pretty and sweet look to my face.

Attached are photos of pictures of other people Richard Ellenbogen deformed and left with short, crooked, "pig snout noses". However, with me -- he was MUCH more extreme. He removed all the anatomy inside my tip and half way up my bride!!

Even my own parents could not recognize me after how drastically Richard Ellenbogen ruined my nose, and as a result the balance and the harmony of my face. It breaks my heart that I cannot recognize my face, and that I have lost my character and my ethnicity. I told him that I was a former model, and I made a living off of my looks. I explained that I live a very social life and my image is very important to me. I told him that I do not want and obvious change -- what he did to me was beyond extreme.

He also cut certain muscles that affect my smile -- which I did not give him consent to do. After my surgery, Richard Ellenbogen never returned even one of my phone calls even though I insisted that I was suffering from severe panic attacks because of how drastically and horribly different I looked because of him.

To this day, I suffer from anxiety, depression, post traumatic stress syndrome, nightmares -- all because of what Richard Ellenbogen did to me. He ruined my face and my confidence. I can no longer keep a job. I can no longer go out and see my friends or family because I look so horrible and they tell me that I do. They ask me why I did this to my face -- they don't understand. Every time I look in the mirror, I cry -- it's still devasting.

Richard Ellenbogen has harmed many people -- just check out his ratings on ratemds.com, rhinoplasty4you.com, or the rhinoplastynetwork.com

Yet Richard Ellenbogen appeared on Television and media interviews shortly after our debacles with him promoting himself on CBS and other channels as "An artist who accidentally became a plastic surgeon." He said he thinks of his job as "making people beautiful and happy." I was fooled too by how the media has promoted this man.

He says on his web site that secondary rhinoplasty is for adding and augmenting -- he writes " tissue is generally removed from various areas during the primary surgery, whereas it is often added in the secondary procedure" . He told me that he was going to add cartilage to my tip.

Meanwhile -- he instead of adding he removed almost half of my nose.

In my opinion, he is delusional if he thinks he makes people happy and beautiful. Many of us have never looked worse or been as unhappy in our lives until after Ellenbogen operated on us. In my opinion, Dr. Richard Ellenbogen is an evil psychopath who enjoys ruining people's faces and lives.

Responsible plastic surgeons of this modern day preserve the structure, tissue, and cartilage of the nose, but not Richard Ellenbogen. His techniques appear to be beyond ancient and outdated. He seems to be just sloppy and careless with his work.

Dr. T said he cannot even begin to understand what goes on in Richard Ellenbogen's head that he does such horribly destructive and aesthetically unpleasing things with people's faces.

I, paid $30,000 to Dr. T from Chicago, who used my rib cartilage to try to reconstruct my nose. He told me that "Dr. Ellenbogen made my nose almost impossible to fix because of how much soft tissue he removed. Therefore, I was not able to get much improvement from the damage that Richard Ellenbogen did to me, and I am left with an oddly short, flat, upturned nose. I may get another surgery to try to correct this more later when my nose heals more.

On the very same day when I went to first consult with Dr. T, just by coincidence, I sat next to two other ladies who had also been severely harmed by Richard Ellenbogen. Their names are Terry and Ki. It was just a chance meeting for all of us. I was told by the people that work at Dr. T's office that Dr. T sees more messed up people from Richard Ellenbogen than from any other doctor.

Ellenbogen left Ki with many open wounds -- he cut out peices of each of her nostrils and under her nose too. She had gone to him to straighten her septum and she left with her face mutilated and deformed. She's had multiple reconstrutive surgeries since Ellenbogen deformed her. She's had skin grafts, ear grafts, rib grafts, etc. I need all the same grafts too as he was so extreme with deforming me too.

Richard Ellenbogen even altered Nora's pictures. Who knows how many other people's photos he's altered and promoted on his website as a success? Then, to add insult to injury -- Dr. Richard Ellenbogen did insurance fraud and charged Nora's health insurance close to $40,000 -- even though she paid for her botched surgery out of pocket.

Dean informed me that on his board, the rhinoplastynetwork.com, at least 8-10 other people that he knows of who went to Richard Ellenbogen needed to get reconstructive surgery. Richard Ellenbogen was voted by users of that website as the "Worst Plastic Surgeon". Richard Ellenbogen was also voted the worst plastic surgeon on the Rhinoplasty4you.com

Terry went to Richard Ellenbogen for a primary and came out with her nose crooked, drastically over shortened, over rotated, and then it collapsed into a pollybeak deformity. Ellenbogen performed another unsuccessful surgery on her and then tried to inject silicon into her nose to try to correct the collapsing and pinching, but she stopped him. After going to Ellenbogen, Terry needed two very extensive reconstructive surgeries to fix her nose. Dr. R Daniels performed one and Dr. Dean T performed another.

I have the emails from the moderators of the Rhinoplasty4you.com -- they explain that they have had to delete the negative posts that unhappy patients have written about Ellenbogen for years. They are so tried of his threats, but also deeply bothered by how many people he has harmed.

I know several people who've been harmed by Ellenbogen. All of us will agree that going to Richard Ellenbogen was the worst thing that ever happened in our entire life. Additionally, Ellenbogen often injects large amounts of fat in peoples faces during his surgical procedures. Ellenbogen was supposed only supposed to put fat under Kat's eyes, but injected it all over her face. He did a similar thing with Janie and myself. Check out the many negative testimonials written by many of his disgruntled patients on Ratemds.com

Or read about the many people Richard Ellenbogen deformed on Ripoffreport.com

Since going to Richard Ellenbogen, many of us have suffered severe and chronic post traumatic stress and anxiety/panic attacks.

Many of us believe that Richard Ellenbogen does not deserve the title doctor. He has ruined too many people's lives.

Here is the definition of evil according to Websters dictionary: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/evil(Richard Ellenbogen clearly fits the description).

Here is an aticle about psychopaths: http://www.cassiopaea.com/cassiopaea/psychopath.htmAgan -- Dr. Richard Ellenbogen seems to fit the description

Of course, California has almost no regulations for plastic surgeons -- Drug addicts can still practice medicine in California.

Please look up the website that Dr. Brian West's patients made for him -- he is another Beverly Hills Plastic Surgeon. West already had 2 DUIs, and he failed the rehap diversion program at least once.

What people don't realize is that any quack can get in magazines and on TV shows such as Dr. Phil, CNN & Oprah including Jan Adams, Michael Evan Sachs and Brad Jacobs -- all addicts who have finally lost their medical licences. Bad doctors often hire publicists to get them on TV and to get fame b/c that is really the only way for them to get themselves patients when they can't get them through word or mouth or a good merited reputation.

ALSO BEWARE OF Dr. BABAK DADVAND WHO ASSISTs RICHARED ELLENBOGEN.

What people don't realize is that any quack can get in magazines such as People, Cosmo, etc and on TV shows such as Oprah, Dr. Phil, CNN, Discovery Health, etc. including Jan Adams, Michael Evan Sachs and Brad Jacobs --all addicts who have finally lost their medical licences. Bad doctors often hire publicists to get them on TV and to get fame b/c that is really the only way for them to get patients.

Beverly Hills Celebrity Plastic Surgeon or Another TV Charlaton? Who is Worse -- Jan Adams or Richard Ellenbogen? Who is Worse Michael Evan Sachs or Richard Ellenbogen? My Reconstructive Surgeons and the many others I consulted with around the country told me that they think that Richard Ellenbogen is the most reckless, most horrible and EXTREME surgeon in terms of leaving people with noses that can't be fixed.

BEST REVISION RHINOPLASTY DOCTOR? SURGEON OF THE SCARS OR SURGEON OF THE SCARS? BEST NASAL SURGEON? OR MOST EVIL MAN ON EARTH? WHY DID RICHARD ELLENBOGEN RUIN MY NOSE AND DEFORM MY FACE? WHY DOES RICHARD ELLENBOGEN CHOP PEOPLES’ NOSES OFF? WHY IS RICHARD ELLENBOGEN PROMOTED BY THE MEDIA -- BECAUSE HE PAYS THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS/MONTH ON PUBLICISTS AND FALSE ADVERTISEMENTS. IS RICHARD ELLENBOGEN A PSYCHOPATH WHO CONTINUALLY MUTILATES AND DEFORMS PEOPLE? IF YOU CONTACT RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGEONS AROUND THE COUNTRY INCLUDING DR. DAVIS IN Fl, DR. TORIUMI IN IL, DR. DANIEL, DR. NASSIF, DR. CALVERT, OR DR. FRANKEL -- ALL FROM CALIFORNIA -- THEY WILL ALL TELL YOU THAT THEY CONTINUALLY SEE PEOPLE WHO HAVE HAD THEIR FACES DEFORMED AND THEIR NOSES CHOPPED TO STUMPS BY RICHARD ELLENBOGEN. PLEASE DO YOUR RESEARCH BEFORE GOING TO RICHARD ELLENBOGEN OF BEVERLY HILLS BODY OR HIS TRAINEE

Wednesday, January 16, 2008

What should you do if you get a bad rhinoplasty --- I Don't recommend going to Dr. Richard Ellenbogen, known among many of his peers as "Dick Ellenbogus" -- unless you want your nose chopped off to a stump and rotated up like Micheal Jackson's. Unless you want a giant ugly space between your nose and your lip or you are a fan of blunt almost tipless, flat, unprojected noses with complete nostril retraction -- I don't recommend going to Ellenbogen (Ellenbogus). Ellenbogen's style of super short, crooked, ugly pig snout looking noses are referred to among his peers as the "Ellenbogus pig snout". That's what several top reconstructive doctors told me.

ALSO BEWARE OF Dr. BABAK DADVAND WHO ASSISTED RICHARED ELLENBOGEN IN REMOVING THE INTERNAL TIPS OF MANY PEOPLES' NOSES AND ASSISTED RICHARD ELLENBOGEN WITH LEAVING PEOPLE WITH OPEN WOUNDS. PLEASE BEWARE OF RICHARD ELLENBOGEN AND Dr. BABAK DADVAND.

What people don't realize is that any quack can get in magazines such as People, Cosmo, etc and on TV shows such as Oprah, Dr. Phil, CNN, Discovery Health, etc. including Jan Adams, Michael Evan Sachs and Brad Jacobs --all addicts who have finally lost their medical licences. Bad doctors often hire publicists to get them on TV and to get fame b/c that is really the only way for them to get patients.

Below is what one lady wrote on ripoffreport.com -- she is one of many who was deformed by Richard Ellenbogen & her photos of her collapsed nose is posted above:

"I am a 22 year old female that wanted a slight cosmetic improvement on my nose. Richard Ellenbogen completely destroyed my nose and face. Because of what he did, I had to endure an expensive and difficult revision.

I found Richard Ellenbogen of Beverly Hills Body while he was featured on Dr. 90210. Thinking he was a renowned Rhinoplasty specialist, I went to consult with him. I was blinded by his self-proclaimed fame and supposed reputation / experience of being the best rhinoplasty surgeon.

I was told that he only operated on the tip of my nose. The days after the surgery, my family and I were in complete and utter shock. My face was deformed and my nose was MUTILATED and chopped off.

I questioned Richard Ellenbogen and his assistant Babak Dadvand and was instead ignored and rushed out of the office.

Feeling betrayed and helpless, I consulted with several other rhinoplasty specialists only to find out that Richard Ellenbogen had completely lied about the entire procedure. Every surgeon that I went to was shocked at my awful results from him. They all told me, according to my surgery report, Ellenbogen did MAJOR work, breaking my bridge bone and bone under my eyes. He did this WITHOUT my permission. My bridge was left twisted and very jagged. My entire nose was completely upturned and flattened. My tip was crooked, collapsing, and over shortened.

There was nothing supporting my tip so it was deflated / flat. Richard Ellenbogen also left a large piece of random plastic on one side of my tip which was about to POP OUT of my skin!!! I have scars left on my nose from the plastic pushing out."

Check out Ellenbogen's many horrific ratings from ratemds.com -- Ellenbogen continually has his lawyers threaten to delete and remove his ratings.

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Date Comments 11/21/07 1 1 1 1 my wife went to him for a very minor change -- the tip of her nose was a little pinched on one side. ellenbogen removed 90% of the tip of her nose and made her nose look like 2 holes with almost no tip and no projection. she just paid over $30,000 for a reconstructive surgery using her rib to rebuild the tip. she needs another intense reconstructive surgery in a year because ellenbogen basically amputated the tip of her nose -- since going to him, she is unrecognizeable. she used to be gorgeous. many people think that he has an alcohol addiction. in any case, he seems to have no conscience. Registered users can respond to this rating

10/19/07 1 3 1 1 I went in to have my tip redone and add fat to my face. I explained to him what I wanted done to my nose and he said he knew exactly what to do. He seemed so confident so I wasn't worried. OMG when the splint came off I was shocked. My nose is too short and slightly crooked. The fat he added makes me look totally different and not in a good way. I would definitely NOT recommend him. Now I have to find another surgeon and pay more money I don't have. Insurance: none Registered users can respond to this rating

10/11/07 1 1 1 1 Dr. Ellenbogen is evil!!! money hungry and talentless. I find it funny that his staff wrote the only positive comment on him below. His staff is just as responsible for the pain he has caused in so many ppls lives. I had surgery with him 7 months ago. My nose is deformed and short. He also injected different amounts of fat in my face...making my face lopsided and fat. He will continuously lie to your face and ignore any problems you might have. In fact, once you pay him...you might as well forget trying to get him to talk with you. He will spend less than 5 mins seeing you before and after your surgery. Its pathetic that he is still praticing. He is so old!! almost 65+! PLEASE....do NOT bother seeing this so called "doctor"...you will save yourself from suffering his mutilating work. It will cost me almost $18000+ to fix what he has done to me. This man does not deserve to be called a doctor. SHAME ON HIM and HIS STAFF!!! Insurance: none Registered users can respond to this rating

9/29/07 1 1 1 1 This doctor is notorious for treating patient care casually and without respect. His techniques are outdated, and his approach to rhinoplasty is to remove significant portions of your nose. His style is very 80's nose job - small and turned up. My sister had rhinoplasty with him and he destroyed her nose and then kicked her out of his office when she went back crying and asking what happened. Do NOT enter this surgeon's office. He does not even adhere to the lowest standard of care. Registered users can respond to this rating

7/27/07 1 1 1 1 My sister went to Richard Ellenbogen b/c she thought he had a great website and he is famous. It turns out he pays for a lot of advertisements and has publicist -- so he is able to scam the public. He really destroyed my sister's nose. She's been crying and extrememly depressed ever since. He did not return her phone calls, and he told her that if she didn't want to look different, then she should not have had surgery. He told her that he's been doing noses for over 35 years -- clearly his techniques are completely out dated. He is a terrible man. My sister is suicidal. She has to undergo at least one 8 hour surgery that requires using part of her rib to reconstruct her nose. She found out that many of Ellenbogen's patients have to get their noses completely reconstructed. My sister used to be such a healthy, happy, outgoing person. Now, she won't leave her house because she looks so terrible thanks to Ellenbogen. Registered users can respond to this rating

7/19/07 1 1 1 1 i spent 8000 on dr. ellenbgen to just adjust minor thing on my nose and he has completely changed the way i look. now not only do i look deformed i have completly lost my identity. the best revisionist in the world cannot even help me to revise his mess...i just dont understand how he can still be practicing out there. after me i saw so many other victims of dr. ellenbogens trying to repair their damages as well. words cannot describe what i went through and is going through... not knowing there is a light at the end of a tunnel. Beware of this doctor or do research and go to rhinoplasty forum to see if anyone have opinions of him. you will hear plenty!!! even old members can tell you that they havent heard anything good about him again and again. just pick any rhino forum and go in and type in his name . you will see... Registered users can respond to this rating

7/9/07 1 5 2 1 17 years ago I had breast implants in France, they were very natural (nobody never knew I had implants ) and I never capsulated with them(silicone with polyuretan on top). 8 years ago a bubble I felt. He told me that I probably had a leak and said to replace them with salines. I didn't want to look big busted, I begged him several time until the date of surgery to make me the same size I was (full b- 90 in french). He agreed but when I woke up I was a DD! I was horrified! He lied to me saying that I was not more than a regular C and the swelling was going to go down. He had to re-operate because of bad capsulation and blackmailed me to not operate if I didn't sign additional papers. I had to be drained 3 times after the surgery, my breast was disfigured because he played with the tissue and he opened pocket under my arms. It's been 8 years and I am still suffering, can't cross my arms, and my breast starts under my armpit! He is a ****! My life changed for the worse. hate my breast! Registered users can respond to this rating

6/18/07 1 1 1 didn't listen to what i wanted -- said he knew what would look good -- i assumed he knew since he is famous -- i made sure to ask for very minor changes my nose has serious scarring and hurts to breath. i am now ugly looking because of him. i just looked him up on rhino4you, and realized he's done this to at least 20 other people just on that forum. Read this rating's feedback

6/13/07 1 1 2 Dr. Ellenbogen is careless, greedy, ****, and a liar. Unless you're extrememly rich and white. He won't pay very much attention to you. He's like a bad car salesman trying to squeeze as much money out of you. Service was very poor and rushed. Doesn't listen to what you want and spends less than 5 mins with patients. Is not up to date with technology. i had my surgery in may. did a good amount of research. he seemed experienced with 33 years of practice. later i found out that he's getting old and has been doing very poor jobs on ppl. Also found out that he has several lawsuits against him. by then it was too late. I went to get my nose tip thinned and has facial fat grafting in my cheeks + chin. This was supposedly a pretty simple procedure that he ended up messing up. The tip of my nose is now crooked and upturned. My face is very fat. I look like a cabbage patch doll. very sad and disappointed. Will be getting revision surgery in 6 months with another doctor. HE IS THE WORST DOCTOR Read this rating's feedback

4/26/07 3 1 1 I just had to have revisional surgery from the botched job that this doctor did to me. Not only did he do a terrible job, he injected free floating silicone into my face which is very dangerous and as it can cause cysts which can ultimately casue cancer. The doctor who performed the revision was shocked and had never seen anything like it before Insurance: none Read this rating's feedback

Tuesday, January 15, 2008

What should you do if you get a bad rhinoplasty --- I Don't recommend going to Dr. Richard Ellenbogen, known among many of his peers as "Dick Ellenbogus" -- unless you want your nose chopped off to a stump and rotated up like Micheal Jackson's. Unless you want a giant ugly space between your nose and your lip or you are a fan of blunt almost tipless, flat, unprojected noses with complete nostril retraction -- I don't recommend going to Ellenbogen (Ellenbogus). Ellenbogen's style of super short, crooked, ugly pig snout looking noses are referred to among his peers as the "Ellenbogus pig snout". That's what several top reconstructive doctors told me.

ALSO BEWARE OF Dr. BABAK DADVAND WHO ASSISTs RICHARED ELLENBOGEN.

What people don't realize is that any quack can get in magazines such as People, Cosmo, etc and on TV shows such as Oprah, Dr. Phil, CNN, Discovery Health, etc. including Jan Adams, Michael Evan Sachs and Brad Jacobs --all addicts who have finally lost their medical licences. Bad doctors often hire publicists to get them on TV and to get fame b/c that is really the only way for them to get patients.

Below is what one lady wrote on ripoffreport.com -- she is one of many who was deformed by Richard Ellenbogen & her photos of her collapsed nose is posted above:

"I am a 22 year old female that wanted a slight cosmetic improvement on my nose. Richard Ellenbogen completely destroyed my nose and face. Because of what he did, I had to endure an expensive and difficult revision.

I found Richard Ellenbogen of Beverly Hills Body while he was featured on Dr. 90210. Thinking he was a renowned Rhinoplasty specialist, I went to consult with him. I was blinded by his self-proclaimed fame and supposed reputation / experience of being the best rhinoplasty surgeon.

I was told that he only operated on the tip of my nose. The days after the surgery, my family and I were in complete and utter shock. My face was deformed and my nose was MUTILATED and chopped off.

I questioned Richard Ellenbogen and his assistant Babak Dadvand and was instead ignored and rushed out of the office.

Feeling betrayed and helpless, I consulted with several other rhinoplasty specialists only to find out that Richard Ellenbogen had completely lied about the entire procedure. Every surgeon that I went to was shocked at my awful results from him. They all told me, according to my surgery report, Ellenbogen did MAJOR work, breaking my bridge bone and bone under my eyes. He did this WITHOUT my permission. My bridge was left twisted and very jagged. My entire nose was completely upturned and flattened. My tip was crooked, collapsing, and over shortened.

There was nothing supporting my tip so it was deflated / flat. Richard Ellenbogen also left a large piece of random plastic on one side of my tip which was about to POP OUT of my skin!!! I have scars left on my nose from the plastic pushing out."

CELEBRITY PLASTIC SURGEON/ DR. 90210/ RICHARD ELLENBOGEN -- FIXES OR CREATES BAD NOSE JOBS? WHAT TO DO IF YOU GET A BAD NOSE JOB? WHO IS THE BEST AT FIXING HORRIBLE NOSE JOBS? WHO IS THE BEST AT FIXING BAD NOSE JOBS? WHO IS THE BEST AT DOING THE WORST NOSE JOBS? WHO IS THE BEST NASAL RECONSTRUCTION SURGEON? WHO IS THE WORST NASAL SURGEON? YOU DECIDE? DR. 90210 OR DR. PSYCHO -- RICHARD ELLENBOGEN? ARTIST OR SCAM ARTIST? BEVERLY HILLS BODY. MONEY HUNGRY SCAM ARTIST OR GOOD DOCTOR -- RICHARD ELLENBOGEN? CELEBRITY PLASTIC SURGEON --SURGEON TO THE STARS OR SURGEON OF SCARS? WHO IS THE BEST RHINOPLASTY SURGEON? WHO IS THE BEST REVISION RHINOPLASTY SURGEON? WHO IS THE WORST? YOU DECIDE. I VOTE FOR RICHARD ELLENBOGEN AS THE ABSOLUTE WORST.

PICTURES OF REAL DR. RICHARD ELLENBOGEN PATIENTS AND TESTIMONIALS.

Dr. Richard Ellenbogen broke patient confidentiality and placed Nora’s altered photos on his website as a success -- To the left are 4 photos Ellebogen put on his website. Her real outcome is the picture with her eyes whited out above.

Below is a series of photos of another recent victim of Richard Ellenbogen -- I pasted the ripoffreport she filed for him. Ellenbogen left this lady with a foreign peice of plastic in her tip in addition to making it, short, collapsed and deformed.

What do you think of a doctor who would ruin noses the way that Richard Ellenbogen does? He then did insurance fraud -- he billed Nora's (the lady with the eyes whited out) insurance close to $40,000, after she paid in full out of pocket. What do you think of a doctor who breaks patient confidentiality and posts patient's altered photos on his website? What do you think of a dotor who false advertises? In my opinion, this sort of doctor is evil.